Quotes About Intelligence

I was a little fat pudgy kid with big thick glasses, and I was quiet and never said a word, you know -- teachers loved me, straight-A student.

Intelligence is the icing, but wisdom is the cake.

A few hours spent reading a book is better than a lifetime of ignorance.

Collaboration allows teachers to capture each other's fund of collective intelligence.

But the technology was accessible, which suggests incompetence on the part of our counterintelligence community and the Clinton Administration, and may in fact rise to the level of treason.

New capabilities emerge just by virtue of having smart people with access to state-of-the-art technology.

Gifted children tend to be very impatient and need constant stimulation, otherwise they become aggressive.

But writing with simplicity requires courage, for there is a danger that one will be overlooked, dismissed as simpleminded by those with a tenacious belief that impossible prose is a hallmark of intelligence.

Why do you have to use me to show off? If you want to show off, then why don't you learn to play chess. - Ch. 5

A little knowledge withheld is a great advantage one should store for future use.

Do you know what morals are Violet? They're other people's rules. Do you know what a conscience is? Freedom to use your own intelligence to determine what is right or wrong. You possess that freedom and no one can remove it from you

What I realized about the dreamland, however, was the power it once held simply by being withheld from me. It created yearning—and also purpose. It demanded the best of me to meet my purpose: diligence, intelligence, and an understanding of

use your brain as cleverly as you use your hips and mouth.

Do you know what morals are, Violet? They're other people's rules. Do you know what a conscience is? Freedom to use your own intelligence to determine what is right or wrong. You possess that freedom and no one can remove it from you. Whenever others disapprove of you, you must disregard them and be the only one to judge your own decisions and actions …

Things I forgot to tell you: That I love you, and that when I awake in the morning I use my intelligence to discover more ways of appreciating you. That when June comes back she will love you more because I have loved you. There are new leaves on the tip and climax of your already overrich head. That I love you. That I love you. That I love you. I have become an idiot like Gertrude Stein. That's what love does to intelligent women. They cannot write letters anymore.

All I wanted was humor and wisdom.

Only beware of your reason, your intelligence. Do not attempt to resolve. . . . Don't preach. No moral conclusions.

I'll let you explain me to myself—that sounds intelligent and fantastic. Don't worry about offending me—that's quite impossible. .

I have become an idiot like Gertrude Stein. That's what love does to intelligent women. They cannot write letters anymore.

Además, dado que es inteligente, comprende que a aquellos que son como yo no se les puede seducir sin ilusión. Y él no puede molestarse en crear ilusiones.

I saw a mouth that was at once intelligent, animal, and soft . . . strange mixture—a human man, sensitively aware of everything—I love awareness—a man, I told you, whom life made drunk.

Il faut de l'esprit pour bien parler, de l'intelligence suffit pour bien écouter.

Moins le blanc est intelligent, plus le noir lui paraît bête.

The man who cannot visualize a horse galloping on a tomato is an idiot.